Education
Académie Julian, Royal College of Artist
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Eric Forbes-Robertson
Edit ProfileCareer
Eric trained at the Académie Julian in Paris in the late 1880s. Amongst the other students at that time were Paul Sérusier, Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis. lieutenant was there that he met Paul Gauguin and his name is inscribed along with those of Roderic O"Conor and Armand Séguin in Gauguin’s portfolio (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art).
In 1897 Eric married a Polish art student, Janina Flamm, on the island of Jersey.
Little is known of the Forbes-Robertsons’ later work, although both exhibited at the August 1911 show of the Esperantist Vagabond Club.
